Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
The director Rodrigo Sorogoyen and scriptwriter Isabel Peña have formed a creative duo since the filmmaker’s first film Stockholm. Afterwards they made Que dios nos perdone, which earned them the award for best screenplay at the Festival and El reino, which they would once again compete for the Golden Shell with two years later. They are now back at the Festival without the pressure of having to compete for an award with a film like As bestas, that after being screened at Cannes, has been released in France and has already been seen by about 300,000 cinemagoers. They hope that its success will be repeated here in Spain when it comes out in November and acknowledge that the Festival is a fantastic showcase for their film. They reveal that they had been working on the script since 2015 and that it gradually evolved into a classic clash between civilisation and avatism in a remote Galician village: a French couple move there to live a quiet life and find that relations with the locals are not quite as idyllic as they would like them to be.